Clinical Insights
Authoritative articles and resources to help navigate the complexities of behavioral health.
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How Stress and Anxiety Are Linked to Hair Loss
You step out of the shower, run a towel over your head, and there it is: a clump of hair where a few strands should be. Or you notice the drain clogging faster, the brush filling up, the pillowcase collecting more than it used to. That moment is frightening, and the fear itself adds to…
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Vitamin D, an Underappreciated Adjunctive Therapy for Depression
If you’ve been reading about vitamin D and depression, you’ve probably seen two very different headlines. One says low vitamin D causes depression and a supplement can fix it. The other says clinical trials found nothing. Both oversimplify what the research actually shows. The honest version is more useful, especially if you’re trying to help…
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From Bad to Worse: 5 Reasons Why Snorting Pills is Harmful
Most of us picture the same scene when we think of snorting a drug: the rolled-up bill, the line of white powder, the cut and the trail. Cocaine made that image famous, but it’s far from the only substance people inhale. Heroin, methamphetamine, and prescription medications all get crushed and snorted, including opioid painkillers like…
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5 Ways to Make Group Therapy More Useful
Group therapy is a form of psychotherapy in which a trained clinician guides a session with several participants at once. It builds an environment of shared experience and common struggle, which can make it easier for a person to speak honestly about what they are carrying. Decades of research support it: the American Psychological Association…
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Addiction Within the Veteran Community
Veterans Day exists to honor the people who put their lives on the line to defend our freedoms. Many veterans carry a heavier load than they ever let on. Some have seen things no one should have to see, and the weight of those memories does not lift when the uniform comes off. For a…
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Residential Treatment Centers
A residential treatment center is a place to live while you get full-time clinical care for a mental health condition, a substance use disorder, or both at once. You stay on site, the clinical team is there around the clock, and the work goes deeper than an hour-a-week appointment can reach. For someone whose symptoms…
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Detox Gets You Sober, Counseling Keeps You Sober
A person can stop using in plenty of places. A hospital bed, a jail cell, a medically supervised detox, any setting where the substance simply isn’t within reach. Coming off a drug in that kind of controlled environment is real, and it matters. It just isn’t the same thing as recovery. The National Institute on…
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Preventing Relapse Through Stress Management
Leaving a treatment program doesn’t quiet the parts of life that made things hard in the first place. Bills still arrive. Relationships still strain. The body still floods with tension on a bad day. For someone in recovery from a mental health condition and a co-occurring substance use disorder, that ordinary stress carries an extra…
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